No posts for this guy.

I've seen two of his films so far, The Piano Teacher and Benny's Video, and neither of which have truly impressed me. You can tell he's a guy with a lot of things he's aching to say, I just don't agree with the way he tells his stories. He shoots everything in a long, master shot and while it works for some scenes (such as in the incredibly uncomfortable sex scenes in The Piano Teacher), he does it far too often. His movies often come off as though they're slow just for the sake of being slow.

On top of that, I find the guy very pretentious and unlikable in interviews. He seems to always want to say something that just breathes wisdom and intellect, but a lot of what he says just comes off as airy, pseudo-intellectual bullshit to me. His famous quote "a feature film is twenty-four lies per second", I'm still not sure do I entirely get (it's about how film is an artifice that ultimately reveals truths about the human condition beneath its superficiality in each frame, right?). By comparison, Kubrick managed to sound much more intelligent while never delving into such vague, abstract nonsense (and of course, was a better filmmaker too).